02 September 2011

Book Review: Free Fall by Robert Crais

For all the Elvis Cole books I have read so far and I am reading them in order, they have a definite pattern to them. It starts off pretty jokey and lighthearted, then you notice after a few more pages the mood turns and they start to get serious, then turn to black before the sunshine comes out again.

This one I found a little mysterious in the beginning as it seemed to hinge on a woman's intuition that something was wrong with her young cop boyfriend. However she did not quite know what it was.

Elvis Cole began to investigate and he could not seem to discover it either. However, of course, the truth slowly emerged and Elvis was soon embroiled with his sidekick Joe Cole with some bad cops who were being blackmailed by drug dealers and gangs.

There is a real human touch for Elvis in a couple of these relationships that is heartening although I found some of the killing scenes a bit too much. However the book as a whole was a good read and I enjoyed it as usual with Robert Crais's Elvis Cole series.

8/10 for me.

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